> 6. Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher. 126 bans. For those unaware, this book, and the ensuing Netflix original, was one colossal > gee, who could have poss

> 6. Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher. 126 bans. For those unaware, this book, and the ensuing Netflix original, was one colossal > gee, who could have possibly anticipated this? The book is about a depressed teenage girl who commits suicide after mailing boxes of recordings to the peers whom she felt wronged her, where she outlines the ways in which they are responsible for her "unaliving" herself. The book glamorizes teenage suicide, specifically of white teenage girls (as for reasons unclear, Jay Asher just had to disregard "write what you know" in favor of making the protagonist be both female and not Jewish), achieving a kind of retribution and redemption through suicide. Not only did this book get published and mass marketed to youths, Netflix actually greenlit it, despite warnings from experts, and after decades of the news media exercising extreme caution and tact over reporting on teen suicide, given the well-established risks of copycat contagion. The result? https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/30/teen-suicides-netflix-13-reasons-why-study https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/30/teen-su... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6817407/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6817407/ Even reporting on adult suicides can be dicey: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191405 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...